Author: Editor BOAY

Kayla Cottrell’s amazing affinity with blue greyhounds continued at Shepparton on Monday night when kennel newcomer Blue Tungsten sensationally smashed the 385m track record at his first start for the young training star. While blue dogs can be an ‘acquired taste’, Cottrell would welcome a kennel full of them. The 20-year-old came within a half-head of winning the 2021 Group 1 Australian Cup with runner-up Fernando Bluey, while just on twelve months ago she won the G2 Warragul Cup with Robbie Rotten. “It’s funny. We seem to have a lot…

‘It’s astounding!’ The $12,585 Anniversary Trophy (450m) at Ballarat on Wednesday night comprises speedsters the ilk of Fernando Mick (Box 4) – winner G1 Hobart Thousand and runner-up in the G1 Melbourne Cup and G1 Maturity Classic, and G1 Adelaide Cup finalist – and G1 Silver Chief third placegetter Landyn Bale (Box 8). But it’s the quirkily named Rocky Horror (Box 7) – rated a $91 chance by expert form analyst The Watchdog – which has ‘captivated the audience’. Trained at Merrimu (between Melton and Bacchus Marsh) by Sarah Xerri –…

Multiple Group 1-winning trainer Anthony Azzopardi admits he’s never really considered Salad Dodger capable of being in the track record-breaking ‘mix’. But his highly underrated speedster had the Traralgon 450-metre track record ‘tossed’ last Wednesday night. Exiting from box four, Salad Dodger led from go to whoa against a classy Mixed 4/5 field comprising Healesville 300m TR holder Unleash Collinda ($1.50F), which was chasing his eighth win from his past nine starts. Salad Dodger ($5.10) defeated Perfect Colour ($23.60) by 4L, with Shadow Riot ($6.70) – also trained by Azzopardi –…

Unheralded speedster Mobile Legend produced an epic win in the $74,335 Group 2 Viatek Warragul Cup final (460m) – second leg of the Gippsland Festival of Racing – on Friday night. A ‘legend of the loam’ in his own right, Mobile Legend – trained by Daryl Brennan of Napoleons (15km from Ballarat) – became a part of country cup folklore with a flying 25.32sec victory in the $47,000 to-the-winner event. It was a race record, slicing 0.02sec off To The Galo’s 25.34sec win in 2016 – at the time a new track…

Angela Langton has an excellent chance of claiming a two-state feature double on Saturday night with in-form siblings Osprey Athena and Osprey Storm, rising stars of the middle distance and staying ranks. Osprey Athena will be in action at The Meadows, chasing her fourth straight victory in the Restricted Win (1-6 wins) 600m final – race 9 at 9.27pm. Osprey Storm is heading to Sydney, where he’s looking to complete a hat-trick in heat two of the Group 2 Summer Distance Plate (720m) at Wentworth Park – race 4 at…

After charging into the exclusive sub-29 seconds Sandown Park club, airborne sprinter Amron Boy heads to Sydney for Saturday night’s heats of the Group 1 Paws Of Thunder (520m) at the peak of his prodigious powers. Amron Boy headlines a high class Victorian contingent contesting heats of the Paws Of Thunder and G2 Summer Distance Plate (720m) on Saturday and G1 National Derby and G1 National Futurity Friday night. Trained by Brooke Ennis, Amron Boy looks perfectly placed in box 1 in the first of five Paws Of Thunder heats,…